[lace] length of yarn
hello all continuing -how long is a piece of string. It bothers me how much yarn i need to put in my bitty bag for possible keyring use. What I have tried to do is: Use one of those map mile measures. Go over each (Bobbin) length of design make a minute squigle at each crossing and follow each thread down to the bottom plus a bit for spare, in case I've made a mistake. But of course that extra length is the bit in my bitty box, so I haven't gained anything at all. (big smile). Alice Wilmshurst, England There has to be a way of measuring the amount needed. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace Pillow Stand
I think that a short time ago there was a posting about a pillow stand that was very popular at the IOLI Convention. There were pictures and instructions on making it. I must have deleted it. If anyone has this information could you please send it to me, or post the information again. Thanks, Penny - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace Pillow Stand
You probably mean mine. The pictures are here: http://vole.stanford.edu/images/bobbin_lace/equipment/stand I'm still waiting for Cathy Belleville to get back to me on whether I can post the measurements and such - the stand was made by her husband, but he no longer makes them now. Weronika On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:23:00AM -0500, Penny wrote: I think that a short time ago there was a posting about a pillow stand that was very popular at the IOLI Convention. There were pictures and instructions on making it. I must have deleted it. If anyone has this information could you please send it to me, or post the information again. Thanks, Penny - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Weronika Patena Stanford, CA, USA http://vole.stanford.edu/weronika - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace Pillow Stand
Hi Penny You may mean this one on the net - go to the end and click on Printable version :) http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/4137/47329 Jenny Brandis Kununurra, Western Australia If you learn from mistakes, why aren't I a genius? No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 9/16/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] coffee plunger
Sylvie wrote: My coffee is made in what you have called a coffee plunger. The water in put in the bottom portion, the grounds in the middle. As the water is heated up, it's forced up, through the grounds, into the top portion. Sylvie, I think what you are describing is a coffee percolator. The coffee plunger is more properly called a cafetiere. See the following web-site. http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.brewers.frenchpress.shtml My dad has one, otherwise I probably wouldn't know about them because I don't drink coffee very often. Malvary in Ottawa where it is a lovely sunny day. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Katrina insurance coverage
Hi All -- I thought some people might be interested in this. Perhaps you all have seen President Bush saying he is going to try to find out about insurance coverage for damages and losses related to Katrina. It's going to be a matter of determining what was the cause of the losses, where a chain of causes is involved. I know which way most insurers will prefer to argue it! But then again, there will be a lot of pressure from public scrutiny on these determinations that may help people in a bind - let's hope. This blurb is from Mealey's Insurance Litigation Reports. Regards, Ricki Utah Homeowners' CLASS ACTION seeks coverage for flooding in new orleans BATON ROUGE, La. - A class action lawsuit filed Sept. 16 against the Louisiana insurance commissioner and numerous insurance companies seeks a declaration that flooding in the City of New Orleans sustained during Hurricane Katrina was caused by breaches in the city's flood walls and does not fall within the exclusions for rising water or an act of God, contained in most standard homeowners' policies (Gladys Chehardy et al., v. Lousiana Insurance Commissioner J. Robert Wooley, et al, No. 536451, 19th Jud. Dist). The plaintiffs also ask the 19th Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge to find that the losses from water entering the city are attributable to a windstorm, a standard covered peril in the insurance policies. According to the complaint, up to 160,000 homes are estimated to be unusable as a result of the hurricane and it appears that after investigations are completed, there will tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of people who could be part of the class action lawsuit. The issues presented in this Petition should be decided by declaratory judgment inasmuch as their resolution involves a major public policy issue which will affect thousands of Louisiana citizens, many of whom will suffer enormous emotional and financial damage until the issue is decided. While the insurance companies may continue to make investment income during the course of any protracted legal proceedings, homeowners on the other hand have little recourse but to sit idly by awaiting a decision, all the while being unable to begin reconstruction or renovation of their homes until they have the money to pay their contractors. As a result, without resolution of this issue by declaratory judgment, thousands of homeowners will be left stranded for months, or perhaps even years, the plaintiffs say. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: sayings from anywhere
At 07:45 PM 9/18/05 -0700, Bev Walker wrote: I heard another one - this from my MIL who told me she was so tired she could sleep on a clothesline :p I vaguely recall an SF story in which people *did* sleep on clotheslines. It was a post-disaster story in which the characters had been on the space station for so many generations that they had forgotten gravity. When sleeping, they clipped an ankle to a line stretched across the room so they wouldn't drift away. About half the sayings on the list struck me as Hoosier dialect. Alas, I can't think of any more -- odds are that I simply don't think of them as *odd*. But there's a bit of advice, reputedly given to my mother by her grandmother: Get married in a brown dress, and have a peg to hang it on. But nowadays, you can get white silk so *cheap* at Dharma . . . -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the creek is flowing, and it looks as though we'll get another fall of rain. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Fall asleep on a clothes line
Jean it is true. I found a picture in a book about the history of the bed. Next february I will give a talk to our U3A group with my title the other uses of the bed hoping to have a large attendance. Cheerio Dora the Knotter To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] red hats
I belong to a red hat group although we are not an official group, just meet occasionally when the feeling take us. We have no rules on our outings. Calories don't count so you can eat what you want. Usually we go to another town where we are not known so don't feel embarrassed that someone might see us in our colorful outfits. Last year we took the train to Chicago and visited Navy Pier using the free trolley system. We gots lots of odd looks but we also gave others lots of amusement. Maybe we can pursuade Carol Melton, now in Arizona, to reprint the poem she rewrote for our lace guild years ago for lacemakers. I have not been able to find that particular issue of our newsletter but I seem to remember it was quite amusing. I did do a design for the IOLI Bulletin of a red hat pin, so look out for it when Debra has space in the future. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Katrina insurance coverage
I wonder how many insurance companies are going to go broke from this? I'll bet they didn't charge premiums that would anywhere near cover this kind of disaster, whether or not they have to pay for flooded as well as blown-down homes and businesses and cars. Hoping that in the rebuild, they use some sense and don't simply rebuild it as it was, so far below sea level. Perhaps they could use realistic, non-subsidized insurance rates to encourage people to build structures in places and ways that will minimize damage. Also realistically, however, the plans to rebuild with a better mix of neighborhoods also means that the old neighborhoods will/would never coalesce again as they were, leaving people feeling disoriented and distressed, even if they are back in New Orleans. -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: poem
On Sep 19, 2005, at 21:33, Carol Melton wrote: I Shall Wear Purple by Mani Harang Adapted by Marni Harang from the poem by Jenny Joseph When I grow old I shall wear purple with pants and t shirts from Convention and go barefoot in class. I like this one *much* better than the original... But, pretty please, may I wear some other colour? Purple just doesn't go with my spirit, much less my skin-tone :) Thanks! -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: poem
I like this one *much* better than the original... But, pretty please, may I wear some other colour? Purple just doesn't go with my spirit, much less my skin-tone :) Thanks! -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Dear Tamara, You are welcome! I think you should wear whatever color you feel brings out your best qualities. Not everyone can wear bright colors successfully. Why not wear what flatters you. There certainly are enough choices. What color do you think works the best for you? One of the great things about sporting silver colored hair is the ability to wear purple and red and just about all of the jewel toned colors. I look great in purple, red, blue, turquoise, etcBefore I had silver colored hair, I was a dark red brunette - I looked better in the earth tones then - blue red made me look sallow, I wore red that was from the yellow side of the color wheel. Purple was just not in my closet. Yellow was perfect on a summer day - or a dark dreary winter day in February. I think the only color that carried over from the transition of brunette to silver was turquoise. Loved it then, have a lot in my closet now. Best Regards, Carol Melton Litchfield Park, AZ USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
